Meta:Historical

This is an index to pages of historical interest, documented and cross-referenced. Historical pages should be documented in the {{historical header}} template, and added to the relevant index and category.

This page includes old Wikipedia pages and discussions that are obsolete or no longer serve an active purpose.

For similar pages not yet listed here, see Wikimedian and the indexes below.

In the early days of Wikipedia, several people were working on the GNU encyclopedia project based on Richard Stallman's essay The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource. They used Wikipedia to develop some of their ideas. Stallman eventually recommended that people focus their efforts on Nupedia and Wikipedia, and so this project never got off the ground. These are the GNE Project's files: